High-Tech Connect

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ABOUT US

High-Tech Connect was started with the following goals

The founders and all involved individuals have over 25 years of extensive high-tech work experience, gained through roles in business development, product management, product marketing, software and hardware engineering, in both startups and established high-tech companies in the US, Asia, and Europe.

Strong Community

Foster a strong community platform for discussing high-tech solutions, business trends, and other relevant topics.

High-Value Activities

Conduct high-value activities such as events, workshops, panel discussions, 1:1 interviews, trips, and trainings.

Promote High-Tech

Promote the high-tech industry in Europe and Switzerland and connect with renowned high-tech clusters around the world, including Silicon Valley, Israel, China, and others.

SCHEDULE

Upcoming & Past Activities

1:1 Interview

Interview with Prof. Sepp Hochreiter on his new xLSTM

Date
November 10, 2023
Online
Where
1:1 Interview

Interview with Dr. Alessandro Curioni, IBM Zürich Lab: A new chip architecture points to faster, more energy-efficient AI

Date
January 22, 2024
Online
Where
1:1 Interview

Neuro AI. Will it be the future in AI and overcome the LLM limitations? Interview with Dr. Gabriele Scheler.

Date
March 12, 2024
Online
Where
Panel Discussion

(fully) Self-driving cars. State of the development and when will they come?

Date
April 11, 2024
Online
Where
Panel Discussion

Will Europe create enough high-tech jobs to ensure a prosperous future?

Date
January 26, 2023
Online
Where
Panel Discussion

85% of AI projects are never implemented. Why? Can you do better?

Date
February 15, 2023
Online
Where

If you would like to participate in any of our activities as an attendee, speaker, or sponsor, please do not hesitate to contact us. We welcome your involvement and look forward to hearing from you. Please contact us.

EVENTS

History

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we organized the following activities, as well as many others:

EVENTS

Silicon Valley meets Switzerland (5 events)
Startup-Nation Israel meets Switzerland (3)
The Future of Digital Healthcare (3)
Datacenter Management (18)
Cyber Intelligence, CyberWar (17)
Future IT Workplace (15)
Marketing Technology/Engineering (5)
Blockchain Applications in Finance (4)
Big Data Management(5)
Online Voting in Switzerland (2)
Future of Computing (1)
AI/ML Applications (3)

TRIPS

Silicon Valley (12 trips)
Israel (1)
China (1)

BLOG POSTS

Our 2 Cents

While this might look terrible from the heading we actually think one has to look at this chart differently.
November 6, 2023
Posted by:
Ralf Haller
"There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source [AI], so they’re creating fear of AI leading to human extinction."
November 1, 2023
Posted by:
Ralf Haller
Recent coverage of private market data from Cambridge Associates has surprised many by revealing the extent to which European venture capital has outperformed American venture capital in recent history. Over the past 20 years, 10 years and 5 years, Europe led in net annual returns by 0.31%, 1.92% and 6.24%, respectively.
October 21, 2023
Posted by:
Ralf Haller